Global Conference on Myositis (GCOM)

Steering Committee Chair Frederick Miller, MD, PhD- USA Scientific Committee Chair Frederick Miller, MD, PhD - USA Scientific Committee Vice-Chair Lisa Rider, MD - USA Organizing Committee Chair Lisa Christopher-Stine, MD, MPH - USA Organizing Committee ViceChair Kanneboyina Nagaraju, Ph.D, DVM - USA Executive Director Jeanne Torbett, CMP, CMMM - USA [email protected] Steering Committee

Lisa Christopher-Stine, MD, MPH - USA Theresa Curry - USA Hitoshi Kohsaka, MD, Ph.D - Japan Ingrid Lundberg, MD, Ph.D - Sweden Andrew Mammen, MD, Ph.D - USA Annie Mitchell - USA Kannegoyina Nagaraju, Ph.D, DVM - USA Ann Reed, MD - USA Lisa Rider, MD - USA Victoria Werth, MD - USA Guochun Wang, MD, Ph.D - China

Scientific Committee

Rohit Aggarwal, MD., MS - USA Anthony Amato, MD - USA Dana Ascherman, MD - USA Olivier Benveniste, MD, Ph.D - France Sonye Danoff, MD, Ph.D - USA David Fiorentino, MD, Ph.D - USA Steve Greenberg, MD - USA Adam Huber, M.Sc., MD - Canada Hitoshi Kohsaka, MD., Ph.D - Japan Ingrid Lundberg, MD., Ph.D - Sweden Pedro Machado, MD - UK Andrew Mammen, MD., Ph.D - USA Kanneboyina Nagaraju, Ph.D., DVM - USA Werner Stenzel, MD - Germany Jiri Vencovsky, MD – Czech Republic Guochun Wang, MD., Ph.D - China Lucy Wedderburn, MD., Ph.D - UK

Organizing Committee

Dana Ascherman, MD - USA Kevin Brown, MD - USA Robert Cooper, MD, FRCP - UK Mazen Dimachkie, MD - USA David Fiorentino, MD, Ph.D - USA Bob Goldberg - USA Todd Levine, MD - USA Shannon Malloy - USA Tahseen Mozaffar, MD - USA Chester Oddis, MD - USA Victoria Werth, MD - USA

SAVE THE DATES! 2nd Global Conference on Myositis May 5-8, 2017 William F. Bolger Center Potomac, Maryland, USA

The 2nd GCOM will feature interdisciplinary scientific presentations of state-of-the-art research in all areas of myositis with a focus on trainees and young investigators, and input from myositis patient support group leaders.

Who is invited? Adult and Pediatric Neurologists Dermatologists Pulmonologists Rheumatologists Rehabilitation Medicine specialists Basic and translational researchers Anyone interested in improving the lives of myositis patients Gain a better understanding of the causes and best treatments for all forms of myositis. Abstract Submission Deadline is December 16, 2016

Information on registration & fees will be coming soon!